What a viewIn new Netflix K-drama, My Holo Love, romance isn’t all that’s needed
- The South Korean caper infuses action, espionage and AI into its romantic core, and is the better for it
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The old aphorism “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” receives an upgrade in My Holo Love, another soul-gladdening South Korean caper with an unshakeably romantic core, now showing on Netflix.
Hang on – fingers off that mouse. My Holo Love has its dollops of undeniably soppy mush, it’s true, but it also weaves a tangled web of action, industrial espionage and science fiction, as though the scriptwriters realised that love actually isn’t all you need.
Consequently, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but only when she’s wearing a pair of mysteriously and accidentally obtained spectacles that generate a handsome hologram. These elaborate goggles are also a portal to some adventurous, hazardous, hi-tech antics that threaten to engulf Han So-yeon (played by Ko Sung-hee) as long as she possesses them.
The glasses are a prototype pair coveted by a fiendish rival technology company. They also attract the attention of a shady operator in a bad-boy black biker’s jacket riding a bad-boy motorcycle. The unwitting So-yeon is in peril! But fear not: hunky Holo (Yoon Hyun-min), with his programmed powers of prediction and danger evasion, will safeguard her – until the bad guys find a way, as they always do. And if So-yeon is somehow deprived of the glasses she will lose her only chum, who is at heart a 3D projection invisible to the rest of the world. Try explaining that with a straight face.